Man Hits 6,000 Yard Target with .416 Barrett

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 4/2/2019 | J Parker

[w1n1]

Renowned long distance shooter Paul Phillips successfully made a 6,000-yard shot using a custom rifle chambered in .416 Barrett.
Paul started shooting as a young boy, with his trusty Daisy BB gun by his side. By age 13, he was hunting small game and going afield with his father. At the age of 18, Paul joined the United Sates Marine Corps as an Infantryman.
He learned the art of long range shooting as a member of 1/1 scout sniper platoon, and earned his Combat Action Ribbon with Task Force Papa Bear in 1991. After leaving the service, Paul earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University, and began competitive target shooting.

Another seasoned shooter Bill Poor made big news in shooting circles when he successfully pulled off a 3-mile (5,280 yards) shot near Midland, Texas back in 2018. Well, Paul Phillips outdid him with an eye-popping 6,000-yard shot on January 20, 2019.

Phillips was shooting a custom rifle chambered in .416 Barrett firing 550-grain Cutting Edge bullets. His target was a steel plate 32″ tall and 48″ wide, 6,102 yards away.
From a 100-yard zero the shot needed 625 MOA of elevation. As you can see in the video, 10 degrees of barrel angle was necessary to hit the target at that extreme range. To give you an idea of just how far 6,000 yards is, with a muzzle velocity of 3,000 feet per second, that round took 17 seconds to reach the target! See the footage of 6000 yard shot with .416 Barrett.

[ThunderSleeps]

That’s an impressive shot. Given the inclination of the barrel in order to make it... At what point (barrel angle and/or range to impact) do we start considering this indirect fire from very small artillery???

[TheZMan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=5RgTnnKWoIE

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

At what point (barrel angle and/or range to impact) do we start considering this indirect fire from very small artillery???

That's why I'm a Freeper! You people have the knack of looking at things from different perspectives.

[farming pharmer]

bkmk for later read

[slapshot]

Can he drain a 40’ down hill double break against the grain putt to halve the hole in a 100$ Nassau?

[DocRock]

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[rjsimmon]

At what point (barrel angle and/or range to impact) do we start considering this indirect fire from very small artillery???

I believe that this is only fair as the Germans turned their artillery into direct fire.

[Bulwyf]

Indirect fire for sure heh.

[Bobalu]

It seems to me that if you were to computer control several barrels using GPS that you could blanket a small area at quite a distance just like artillery.

I believe GPS is jammed at key gov locations to make it harder to calculate an exact location....this is wise. One would have to get several readings far away from the target and use trigonometry to calculate the location....most miscreants can’t utilize trig :-)

[TruthFactor]

This doesn't add up. Am I missing something?

To give you an idea of just how far 6,000 yards is, with a muzzle velocity of 3,000 feet per second, that round took 17 seconds to reach the target!

[Lurker]

“Can he drain a 40’ down hill double break against the grain putt to halve the hole in a 100$ Nassau?”

I don’t think I’d bet against him.

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[Bobalu]

That looks like a German 88.

Rumored to be am excellent field weapon.

[Delta 21]

As long as you can see your target, its direct fire.

[newfreep]

Aided by NZT?

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[treetopsandroofs]

I caught that, too. Hehe, New Math.

[central_va]

6 seconds not 17!

[Magnum44]

What optic did he use?

[mad_as_he$$]

Thank you. Caught my eye also.

[DuncanWaring]

The bullet didn’t maintain the 3000 fps the entire time.